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what's funny is i had to work with vista while it was in beta...and it sounds like it really hasn't improved much. ineffective use of memory, constant error messages and problems with compatability.

That was what you call sarcasm.
Glad you liked the link.

Vista isn't on there, but here's my rendition of Vista Airways:
You get to the gate, and it looks like the same gate you flew from before, but something's not quite right...you get on the plane, and it's fully loaded, in fact, look at all those engines on that plane! Wow! But there's no pilot. There's just one stewardess, and instead of telling you where to sit, she hands you back your ticket and all it says is "Search..." You sit down in the first seat you can find that's available, way in the back, and your plane takes off. You watch the movie, but it's in Greek. You get served food, but it's inedible. You get ready to disembark and are told there was a common user interface error, and instead of going home, you're going to .... the moon!

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technically speaking....when a product is out for sale, it's final.


it's operational ability scream "EARLY BETA."


and i love the link you posted.

Or it may have been Microsoft garbage.

Here's my update:
Dell sent me a new computer. We wiped the mother clean and reinstalled Vista, utilities and drivers, and the version of Office 2007 that I paid for. Opened the program that caused the most error messages (Microsoft Calendar) and were able to duplicate the error message. I deleted the offending program (Calendar) and have thus far not had a single error message.

I am giving Vista a week or so to make sure there are not other compatibility issues before downloading any other software, even Firefox.

But right now I have to conclude that the incompatibility lies within two f$%^ing Microsoft isses: Vista and Calendar. Can somebody please make Bill retire now rather than next year?

I don't really think it's Bill. I think it's sir-throws-chairs-alot.

Sounds like you need the de-crapifier, it will remove all of the third-party stuff that Dell gets paid to pre-install. http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/

Woops, looks like my suggestion was a little too slow. :-/

I looked at the site. Sounds good. Not just for Dells. I'll be interested to see if it finds anything on my XP install, when (if) I next boot XP. As mine is installed from clean, I don't think I've got anything I don't want. I'm just curious to see it in action.
I find Spybot an invaluable tool, but beware of imitation rebadged malware copies.

Spywareblaster is good, too, not that you're likely to have many problems if you only use IE for system updates.

Ah, but I don't even use IE for that anymore. For some reason, it was refusing to update a couple of things, a while back, so now I just use windizupdateWindizUpdate.